Astros Owner Jim Crane Thinking About Moving the Club’s AAA Affiliate to the Woodlands Area.
Back on April 26, 2012, in an article I wrote about the new Sugar Land Skeeters, my mind moved quickly to the bigger possibility down the road that one day the Astros might be ready to entertain the idea of operating a AAA franchise in Sugar Land and a AA club in the general Woodlands area – or vice versa, by implication. The big plan would be to have the MLB Astros’ two highest minor league clubs located in the Metro area for the sake of killing two birds with one stone: (1) to make it easier and cheaper to option players back and forth between the MLB club and its two largest minor league affiliates; and (2) to give Houston fans and talent scouts a good shot look most of the time at upcoming talent.
Here’s a link to that 2012 column and what I actually wrote back then:
https://thepecanparkeagle.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/skeeters-buzzing-think-big-why-not/
It’s funny how ideas grow, isn’t it? Today there is an article out on the Internet that suggests that Mr. Jim Crane is also now thinking that it might be a good thing to relocate Houston’s AAA farm club to a new site just north of the Woodlands area.
That would be a good start, Mr. Crane. Then we could let the Rangers take over Corpus Christi, which Nolan Ryan’s family owns, anyway, and work something out with the Sugar Land people to take over a new Texas League AA franchise spot.
The Woodlands (AAA) and Sugar Land (AA) would control two discrete population markets in the Metro Houston area, yet, both would be easily available to fans of these mostly future Astros. Add to it the fact that affiliation with the Astros would make the Sugar Land Skeeters and whatever they shall end up calling the Woodlands area team a lot more interesting to the average fan.
Words on paper. Sometimes they are the stuff that dreams are made of.
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